GoodTimeCharlie: One thing to add about recapturing the Centers of Power as essential to any effective strategy, consider this:

The American Revolution was won by strength of arms. However, our Founding Fathers & like-minded Patriots controlled the centers of power in America, the local governments, the newspapers, the businesses...in short, they were in position to LEAD the masses in revolt against England. This was not a so-called Marxist type of revolution, from the bottom up. (Which actually is a misnomer, since it is always elites leading the pack & stirring the masses in Marxist revolutions also) It was revolution by the leadership of American society, who skillfully brought the people to its Cause.

The chief distinction of the American revolutionists is the worthiness of their great Cause. It was the cause of Liberty based on the model of Individualism, i.e., rights are inherent to the individual, governments are secondary, deriving authority only by the informed consent of the governed, and established for the minimal purpose of protecting the rights of the individual, etc.

But, again, without first controlling the power centers, the revolution would have been impossible or would have devolved into anarchy followed by despotism.